Have you ever had a computer virus?

[livinggg]

I had one a long time ago that turns all your files into .vbs scripts. I was actually burning a cd when I realized I had this virus from one of the files on that cd. I still have the cd, if you put it in a windows computer and open the file it will start turning all your files to useless scripts. lol. It's the only time I ever had a virus and I was begging for it. Anyone ever get any crazy computer viruses?

[Xero_Daxter]

Juliet lähetti viestin:

Our PC was notorious for getting them during music installing phases
from websites 2007 or earlier etc.

Back when MySpace was still relevant. Lol.

[Blunt Raps]

Back in the limewire days, yeah.

Ive been installing programs into a virtual environment since like 2010? though.

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

war thunder gave me one once

[Medified]

My brother once decided to download Roblox exploits off some shoddy YouTuber back in 2018, he ended up getting redirected to weird Russian anime sites

[Rio]

it was fairly common before adblockers/noscripts/javablockers etc

[Electric Cupcake]

A skeezy game crack that Malwarebytes flagged, but Avast did not.

I was planning on reformatting and doing a clean reinstall on that laptop anyway, so I tried running it.

[Rio]

I remember when Apple/linux would brag about not having viruses.

Because all the malaware makers targeted windows.

[AustrAlien2010]

If you do not know what you should do. You should label the CD and write on the CD that there is a virus on it.

[xDDD]

Yes, but it's been a really really long time.
It's hard to get viruses nowadays because we don't have Norton and McAfee dominating the market and releasing viruses to push people into using their services.

I think the last virus I had was some nasty ransomware, where the "government" locked my computer and was demanding moneypak gift cards lol

[SanekiBeko]

Windows XP was beloved yet what hell of a Virus Magnet. I've killed multiple home work pcs my mom had back then until she finally got her own laptop. But I haven't had any viruses in a long time cause I know better and anything I miss Windows had patched or my virus protection would kick in.

[AdahnGorion]

Yes.. it was a dark dark evening.. we called it.. new years even 1999.... after that my computer went total wonkers and tried to take over the world.

[Mr Keefy]

About 20 years ago when I still had 56k dial up yes.
I stupidly downloaded a jpeg file from a direct messaging chat board that ended in .exe (filename.jpg.exe) and once I opened it Norton antivirus went mental and kept popping up with virus detected alerts but couldn't clean or remove it.
Anyway after a couple hours research I found out I needed the tool itself to remove it so downloaded prorat1.8 from their website and simply clicked the button that said " remove server" and bingo problem solved.. from that day since I stopped using Norton.

[A&A]

Yes, a lot

[AD]

I don't know for sure, but when I studied at the university my laptop was slowing down a lot. Eventually I just got tired of it and reinstalled windows and deciided NOT to install whatever crap I found online. Turns out my laptop didn't slow down the same way after that. Don't think it slowed down much at all, even as years passed. It's very possible I had a virus of some kind, because I had no sense of internet safety back then.

[aka]

Every single steam user on earth has computer viruses.

Sorry if you thought you were using a virus free computer, you aren't.

You're welcome friends


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